Thursday, May 24, 2012

journal entry 1

Let’s Start Paying College Athletes:


- The journalist Joe Nocera discusses the issue of paying college athletes. He argues that college athletes make

huge efforts for their schools and must be rewarded for those efforts by getting paid like professional ones. He

used many powerful arguments in order to convince the audience with his point of view such as providing some

key information. For example, he cited the efforts and time spent by college athletes on their games which go

up to 50 hours per week. He also provided statistics of the millions of dollars that the coaches get. Another

good argument was providing the revenues that come from advertisement, TV contracts…

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/lets-start-paying-college-athletes.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all

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